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Sarwan Sahota Distinguished Scholar Award Recipients

The Sarwan Sahota Distinguished Scholar Award is presented annually to one or more established faculty members (mid to late career) who have made an outstanding contribution to knowledge or artistic creativity in their area(s) of expertise while employed at Toronto Metropolitan University. The contribution to SRC activity may be a notable, significant, cumulative contribution; or a particularly insightful or formative body of work (which may include  discovery, application, interpretation, or creative or artistic work), either of which has had great impact or significant outcomes and/or has changed the nominee’s field/discipline.

Award recipient(s) will receive a certificate of recognition and a monetary award of $3,000 as a one-time payment (subject to applicable deductions).

The Distinguished Scholar Award is made available through the joint contributions of professor emeritus Sarwan Sahota and Toronto Metropolitan University.

Key criteria: Scholarly, research and creative activity

2024 recipient

Sharareh Taghipour

Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science

Dr. Sharareh Taghipour is Canada Research Chair in Physical Asset Management. She is recognized for her ground-breaking work on prognostic and health management, sustainable asset management, production scheduling, maintenance and reliability optimization of assets, human reliability modeling and healthcare operations management. She has received 26 awards, including PEMAC-Maintenance Management Leadership Award and 7 best paper awards at international competitions. She has an excellent track record of research collaboration with both academia and industry. She has published 76 journal papers, has secured over $2.2M in external research funding, and has supervised 120 HQPs, including postdoctoral fellows, and graduate and undergraduate students.

Past recipients

  • Ojelanki Ngwenyama
    School of Business Management, Ted Rogers School of Management
  • Ebrahim Bagheri
    Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science
  • Alagan Anpalagan
    Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science
  • Lorraine Janzen Kooistra
    Department of English, Faculty of Arts
  • Michael Arts
    Department of Chemistry and Biology, Faculty of Science
  • Xiao-Ping Zhang
    Department of Electrical, Computer, and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science
  • Trevor Hart
    Department of Psychology, Faculty of Arts
  • Mehrab Mehrvar
    Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science
  • Farrokh Janabi-Sharifi
    Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Architectural Science
  • Ruth Panofsky
    Department of English, Faculty of Arts
  • Dérick Rousseau
    Department of Chemistry and Biology, Faculty of Science